Art Research

Dr. Aleksandra Dulic is media artist and researcher with specialty in interactive multimedia installation and animation. Her artistic practice and research foci are in media for social change and media across cultures with a goal to expand the idea of interaction with computational technology through analysis of a philosophy of interaction derived from the study of older, socially grounded, situated, multidisciplinary art forms. Her artistic works include interactive computer installations, 3D visualizations and applications for interactive animation. Aleksandra has received a nuber of awards for her short animated films . Her artistic work is widely presented in exhibitions, broadcasts, and festivals across Europe, Asia and North America.  These works include media performances, interactive computer installations and films, as well as an interdisciplinary collaborations with composers and artists in various disciplines, such as music, dance, theatre, poetry, shadow play.

Teaching

She is also active as a a writer, an educator, teaching workshops, presenting and publishing papers, across North America, Australia, Europe and Asia. She conducted graduate seminars in Computational Poetics at the Belgrade Fine Arts University's Interdisciplinary Post-Graduate Program in Polymedia in 2007 and 2005, which was supported by World
University Service, Brain Gain program award. This course centers on the history, practice and application of computing technology in time based multimedia. A workshops in media perfomance entitled an Evolution of Electric Shadows at the Indonesian National Academy of Arts (ISI) in Solo, Central Java in 2005 examined the relationship between shadow play and new media in a variety of cultural encodings.

Eduaction

In 1998 Aleksandra received BA from Fine Art University of Belgrade, MFA from the School for the Contemporary Art in 2000 and Ph.D. from the School of Interactive Art and Technology in 2006 from Simon Fraser University where she was working as a faculty member from 2000 to 2005. Her doctoral dissertation entitled Fields of Interaction: From Shadow Play Theatre to Media Performance, is a cross-cultural study of the emerging practice of interactive and performative media art. One of the outcomes of her doctoral research is a set of compositional tools for live animated performance.

Research

Dr Dulic is currently pesuing a research project entitled An intelligent instrument: composition, structure and improvisation in visual music, at the Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre, University of British Columbia, for which she received a two year research funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, SSHRC (2007/2009). Another major a research project, entitled Computational Poetics, a SSHRC-funded Research/Creation Grant in Fine Arts (2004/2007), is focused on the articulation of an aesthetics of digital art performance and the development of a tool-set to enable artists working in the computational medium to create, present and document their work. This research project is a collaboration with Kenneth Newby and Martin Gotfrit.

Exibitions

Recently Aleksandra with Kenneth Newby and Martin Gotfrit, has completed a commissioned interactive installation work for the Beall Center for Art & Technology in Irvine, California. The work, in a thousand drops... refracted glances features an animated mosaic of projections of approximately 100 persons on a curtain of 110 suspended screens. She is engaged in ongoing collaborations with Kenneth Newby in the creation of a series of works combining interactive installation, live animation, live cinema and performance documentary. This work has been presented at the Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival's Interactive Futures, the Belef Festival in Belgrade and the Elektra Festival in Montreal 2006. A major interactive audio-visual installation work, One River (running...) was exhibited at the Surrey Art Gallery in October 2005. The media performance of Pasiphae's Desire is presented at The Academy of Electronic Arts CeC & Cac in New Dehli, India in February 2007. The interactive animation Symmeries was presented at 12th Jogjakarta Gamelan Festival as well as a new media shadow play Semar’s Journey was presented the Jogjakarta Arts Festival.

Publications and Lectures

Aleksandra has presented and published her work in computatinal media at a variety of conferences including International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA) , New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Practice As Research in Performance, Bristol; Computer Art Congress, Paris; Digital Arts & Culture, Melbourne (DAC); Planetary Collegium, Beijing; Transnet, Vancouver, and the Journal of Media Practice. A paper on the subject of intelligent instruments for situated media performance was published in the Canadian Theatre Review in 2007.

Filmography

Her filmography includes Eclipse of Radio B292 2001, a feature length documentary Funded by Canada Council for the Arts , Spirit, 1999, an animated music video, as well as award winning short animated films The Man on the Square 1998 and Situation 1996 from Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival.

Curation

Aleksandra is a co-founder of the New Forms Media Society and has served ( 2002/2005) as a exibition gallery and media peformance curator for the New Forms Festival as well as as a conference committee member.

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